The Activist's Media Handbook by David Fenton - 9781647228668

The Activist's Media HandbookLessons from Fifty Years as a Progressive Agitator\nAuthor(s): David Fenton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Insight Editions, United States\nImprint: Earth Aware Editions\nISBN-13: 9781647228668, 978-1647228668\nSynopsis\nIn an extraordinary career David Fenton has learned first-hand what to doand not to doto propel progressive causes into the public eye and create real, impactful, lasting change. A visionary activist, Fenton has been the driving force behind some of the most important and history-making campaigns of the last 50 years, from the No-Nukes concerts with Bruce Springsteen in 1979, to the campaigns to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in the late 1980s, exposing the dangers of toxic chemicals in our food, the long battle to legalize marijuana and end racist drug laws, the misinformation in Washington during the Bush era in the 2000s, and recent campaigns that successfully banned fracking in New York and alerted the public to the climate cri.